Top 5 Beach Wedding Fails & Tips to Avoid Them

As we are currently deep in the planning of our own beach wedding, what better way is there to relieve some of the stress by seeing some funny beach wedding fails? Or is there…

Anyway, they say you can learn from other people’s mistakes right? Let’s hope that we can draw some lessons from the below and don’t end up in the same situation. Maybe we should have added these tips to our earlier post about whether a beach wedding is right for you. We might have changed our mind had we known, but we’re in too deep now!

These five cases below definitely started to make us wonder!

Make sure you don’t have your ceremony as the tide is coming in…

As bad as I feel for this couple, you have to admit, it’s kind of funny. *knocking wood* I’m hoping this will not happen to us. There is no amount of umbrellas or rain coats that can save you from this. Maybe they should’ve conducted the ceremony in a boat and they could have gracefully floated off in the distance as the tide came in. That would have certainly been a first! Maybe we’ll add that to our own list of beach wedding ideas.

Even if it hasn’t started raining yet, if sky looks dark and grey, it’s probably a good idea to start rolling out your contingency plan and go inside…

I bet they are questioning whether there is a more sinister meaning than just the lightning strike. Is this a sign from above? Is there a greater meaning to this? You’d certainly also want to be careful handing out umbrellas to your guests with this type of weather or they may be zapped into oblivion. The lesson I can draw from this is that I’ll be sending my guests inside as soon as I see so much of a hint of a rain cloud in the sky.

A little bit of a breeze is great to cool down the guests on a beach wedding, but hurricane force winds is another story…

With hurricane force winds outside, I’d definitely consider rolling out my contingency plans. As the gentleman in the video mentions it’s the most fun he’s had since he was five years old, but I’m certainly glad it wasn’t our wedding.

Make sure you physically visit your venue before deciding on your final location…

As we mentioned in our earlier article that examined what to take into account before selecting your wedding venue it is a wise idea to pay them a physical visit. You’d want to see if the beach is a public beach, and to get an idea of the types of characters visiting this beach. This couple obviously forgot to do this and are getting more than they bargained for… Beach wedding fails at its worst.

And for good measure, another couple that forgot to take into account the daily changing of the tides…